In the News

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101210094416.htm ... a paper in the Journal of Vertebrae Paleontology 30 (December 8th) has come up with some interesting biological differences, as it seems

At http://johnosullivan.livejournal.com/26669.html ... Kevin Trenberth, IPCC lead author and matey boy with Phil Jones of UEA notoriety, has rushed to defend a peculiar study that

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101209141130.htm .... worlds in collision - actually bashing up against each other - is one hypothesis of the early solar system now being floated. An

At http://cosmictusk.com there is suddenly a flurry of posts after a long period of inactivity - on meteorites and fireballs. For example, a fireball train

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101208151609.htm ... a paper in Current Anthropology speculates that the Persian Gulf was an oasis during the last Ice Age - and even in

At www.dailygalaxy.com December 7th there are a couple of further baiting posts to stir up conventional thinking. A super massive black hole is thought to

At www.physorg.com/print210942979.html ... the Gemenid annual meteor showers peaks on December 13th and 14th and is quite intense. It lasts for days, is rich in

This paper by Peter van der Veen, well known to SIS, with co-authors C Thies and Manfred Gorg, was published in the Journal of Egyptian

At http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/print/2010/12/david-and-solomon/draper-text/ ... Robert Draper in the December 2010 issue of National Geographic has an article on the controversy around David and Solomon - was

At www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,732654,00.html 'Egyptian dog bones could help solve canine conundrum'. Scientists are trying to work out how the wolf evolved into 400 breeds of dog

A paper in Quaternary Science Review (see www.physorg.com/print210875954.html ) claims Aborigines were not responsible for landscape fires and other environmental impacts shortly after their arrival,

These two stories come from www.dailygalaxy.com December 7th ... and one begins by claiming comet data over the last hundred years suggests there is a

The NASA website and various blogs such as http://wattsupwiththat.com December 7th have video clips of a massive flare on the surface of the Sun (see

At www.aftau.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=13429 ... Tel Aviv University archaeologists have explored Naukritis, a Greek trade emporium in Egypt during the 7th and 6th centuries BC. It existed

There are currently a succession of very good posts at http://chiefio.wordpress.com. EM Smith (December 6th) begins by bemoaning the constant bleating about the hottest year

Again, can be found at www.physorg.com/print210777849.html ... a geological conumdrum as rivers form steep inner gorges in some broad glacial valleys in the Alps. The

At www.physorg.com/print210618120.html ... astronomers have been looking at the waxing and waning light of exploding stars and have seen patterns that aren't yet accounted for

November 26th ... a 20 mile long reef of chalk has been found by divers offshore of Sheringham in Norfolk. It consist of arches and

At www.physorg.com/print210529446.html there is a press release on a paper from the December 2nd issue of Science and it seems that Antarctic ice cores have

At www.geology.com/press-release/soom-shale/ ... a site near Table Mountain in South Africa has a rock layer a few metres thick that contains the petrified remains of